On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-10-02 17:50:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > That said, what's the point in NOT being verbose? > > Version strings need to be displayed, and if they take too much space, > they may be truncated (e.g. in aptitude). They can also be very confusing for users.